Logic Stage Reading Questions

[SkiMom]

How many books do your logic stage dc read per year...on average? I'm talking about books that you require for "reading" time during school...not the extra, fun time reading books. I realize that children read at different rates, but I'm trying to come up with some idea of what is reasonable so that I know what I should expect from my dc. Thanks.

[Rhondabee]

How many books do your logic stage dc read per year...on average? I'm talking about books that you require for "reading" time during school...not the extra, fun time reading books. I realize that children read at different rates, but I'm trying to come up with some idea of what is reasonable so that I know what I should expect from my dc. Thanks.

 

Between 12-18 books. It usually takes my ds's between 2-3 weeks to read, discuss, and write about a book. (It usually takes us 1 day to discuss, and 2-3 days to write a rough draft, edit, and make a final copy.)

 

I don't normally plan out exact reading assignments until just before we are ready to start the book. Usually, the first day I will have 6th-gr-ds read "for 45 minutes" and ask him a few questions afterwards so that I can gauge how difficult the reading is for him. Then, I break up the book accordingly.

 

Of course, I didn't spend a whole lot of time searching for books - I just used the lists in WTM. We covered poetry/fairy tales as read alouds, and still usually didn't finish the entire WTM list (with my older DS, now in 9th).

[Heather in WI]

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We're heading into the logic stage next year and would like to know more about what others have done, too.